Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. In his teaching and scholarship, he focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. In 2006, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. His most recent books are The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes and the Pulitzer Prize for History; Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, winner of the New York Historical Society Book Prize; and The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
"An outstanding scholarly contribution… disciplined, powerful, and
moving."
*The New York Times Book Review*
"Lucid and succinct."
*The Washington Post*
"This brisk but far-reaching book... argues that the principal
issues of our own troubled time pose the same conundrums that were
the main areas of Reconstruction contention."
*Boston Globe*
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